Abracadabra

Gidday.

The weekend has arrived already. Probably a good thing... I was up at 4:00 this morning to get an early start to a job. It was one of those typical jobs, where it is doomed from the start. The plan was to do four jobs... we successfully managed only one of the four. Mostly problems related to keys... or more specifically, lack of. I was reminded of Mt Mary... the guys at Ashley's will understand that one.

Apparently there were two alternative routes we could take. First one was through a gold mine, first we needed permission. We went to scope it out, but due to the rain the goldmine road was washed out and we couldn't even make it to the mine. I did however get one pic which I will attach. Second alternative route was "around" the gate... we went a short distance up this so called track and very almost got stuck, so we gave up and went back to the main track... even if we were travelling sideways. The town is called Mt Morgan, there is a bit of a railway museum there so I suspect I may well be back there at some point.

We gave up on that job at that point, and went to do job number 2, turned out we weren't inducted on the particular site so we couldn't do it.

Gave up and went to do job number 3, which was strangely successful. Then we figured it was too late for job number four, as that was about 2 1/2 hours up the road, and by the time we drove there, did the job, and drove the 4 hours back, we would have still been on the road now.

Got back to work, and found someone had booked about 4 vehicles in for a friday afternoon for one person... which is not very useful. So instead of knocking off at 1:30 as was intended, I ended up doing an install too. So the day wasn't entirely wasted.

Everythings pretty wet here at the moment, some places have had over 1100mm of rain in the last 2 months. Yes, over a meter. They haven't had this much rain since 1974... and us kiwis are getting blamed for bringing it over.

Might head to Rocky (again) in the weekend, and carry on to Yeppoon, where there is a Peter Brock museum which we intend to have a look at. Sunday will be a pretty cruisy day, preparing myself for my first solo week at the mine.

Should be interesting...

Right, I best go and get some shut eye.

TTFN.